These days, it seems everything either is remote or can be remote, from remote learning to remote patient monitoring. Both telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) have been around for a while; however, it wasn’t until the outbreak of COVID-19 that the use of both of these exploded due to necessity.

Symtech Solutions is a family-owned company that specializes in offering life safety communication systems and rapid response monitoring systems for healthcare facilities, including nursing homes and local hospitals, around the nation. Based in Pennsylvania, our company has helped hundreds of facilities design and implement systems, such as nurse call and wander management, that have helped keep patients safe and improve their care. Below, we’ll take a look at remote patient monitoring. Contact us for your next life safety communication system today!

WHAT IS REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING?

In short, remote patient monitoring is the process that allows patients to measure their own vital signs, record them, and then send them to their healthcare professional. Blood pressure, weight, temperature, and more can be measured at home or at a senior living facility quite easily without having the hassle of visiting your doctor. Once your doctor receives the information and reviews it, they then can make the appropriate recommendations and have a record of your progress as well. This is super useful for those patients with chronic health conditions.

HOW DOES REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING WORK?

The crux of RPM is the use of different devices that monitor and/or measure information about the patient that then is sent via wireless technology or an internet connection to the healthcare provider. Once this information is received by the healthcare provider, they then can make assessments on progress and adjust treatment if necessary — sometimes on an hourly basis. This type of information allows a healthcare provider to assess if the prescribed treatment is working or if alterations need to be made.

WHO CAN BENEFITS FROM REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING?

• Those just released from the hospital. Oftentimes, if you’ve had an extended medical stay, you are advised to rest as much as possible. Heading to the doctor’s office for checkups may not be in your best interest. With RPM, you can record your own vitals, send them to your doctor, and they can then make recommendations based on the results.
• Women with high-risk pregnancies. Many women are placed on bedrest before their baby is born for various reasons. Still, their condition needs to be monitored by their healthcare provider. Women now can monitor their condition and send results to their doctors without putting any undue stress on the baby by traveling.
• Those with dementia. Those with dementia are often confused, and travel can exacerbate their condition because it is an unfamiliar location to them. RPM can help with the stress levels of the patient and keep them safe from traveling as well.
• Those with serious heart conditions. A spike in heart rate or other abnormal activity can immensely impact those with serious heart conditions. By utilizing technology and RPM, these patients can safely send electrocardiograms and other vital information to their healthcare provider without any undue stress.

CHOOSE SYMTECH SOLUTIONS AS YOUR LIFE SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PROVIDER TODAY

When looking for life safety communication systems, it’s important to choose a company with experience, know-how, and expertise. Symtech Solutions has been offering these systems to area healthcare and hospitals since 1982. Every rapid response monitoring system we install is customized to each healthcare facility in order to meet their needs. Our mission is to help our customers improve patient care by offering tools that improve processes and efficiencies that then help healthcare staff be less stressed. This then translates to better patient care overall.

Our solutions include emergency nurse call systems, panic buttons, wander management, infant security, infection control solutions, wireless phones, RTLS technology for tracking and locating purposes, telehealth, digital whiteboards, temperature screening kiosks, and so much more. We help protect people and help healthcare providers save lives. Each of our custom life safety communication systems comes with lifetime service and support options. You can call us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for help with any of your rapid response monitoring systems.

If you are interested in partnering with Symtech Solutions or in learning more, give us a call today.